Pinchus Part 5 Weekly Torah Portion according to the Kli Yakar Numbers 26 verse 2 5776

Good evening everybody. We're on chapter 27 26 chapter 26 in paras. Okay. Verse one [Music] says it was after the plague. So this was after the 24,000 Jews were killed. Okay. And we turn the page Mosha vloar. Hashem said to Moses and to Elazar um son of Aon the cohen saying and this is the verse we're actually going to focus on. Take a census of the entire assembly of the children of Israel. So Roas is from 20 years of age and up. Omala right according to their father's house is all who go out of to the army in Israel. So we see the the clear card is going to explain we need to take the census now we need to come out with a number and it was in order to inform us of what that even though 24,000 Jews were killed in this plague nevertheless guess what nisharu shishimbo there remained 600,000 Jews. Why is 600,000 Jews significant? We've talked about it before. It had to do with the amount of camps that people that we have the being able to rest on the the Jewish people. You don't have this entire population that's complete unless you actually had 600,000 and you would no longer be able to say a special when you see 600,000 Jews in one place the one would make is right who knows all the secrets. Blessed is Lord our God, King of the universe who knows all the secrets and the hidden wisdom because every human being is unique and different. And there's no way that I could, you know, I don't know what you're thinking and I don't know what's in your heart and I don't know what you're thinking, what's in your heart, but God knows everything. He's the only one that knows because we're all unique and different. I could guess, I'll probably be wrong on most of it, but God is the only one that knows everything and he created us individually unique and different. If someone sees 600,000 they will make this this as it's mentioned in 58 side a therefore the is coming to teach us the whole Torah in this para is coming to inform us that when the Jews were about to enter Israel they had that complete number of at least 600 100,000 Jews. So there you have it. Um next paragraph shame shell and misbar there's this signature God's signature of yud and hay is put upon each name in the counting. So even though it's yud and hay, I will tell you now when you look at it, you'll see the he in the beginning of the name and the yud at the end of the name. It's still the name of God was placed specifically. In other words, if you look at all the other countings, you don't have this anomaly. Like an example, right? You don't have the attached to everybody's name. because all the other countings they had not yet they had not been what's the word they weren't suspected they weren't you know people weren't putting their eyes on them and thinking that they did something wrong before this point it was just now with pinfas right before in our last chapter in Balac that the Jewish men fancied found with the non-Jewish women. And that's where you'll find that the four the 24,000 people were killed in the um the plague. So it was only now that there was any there was only suspicion about and now there's a place there was now a place to actually verify this by saying what this is a really interesting concept. the end actually verifies and confirms we already know the beginning. So here's the one of the last countings of the Jewish people and the yud and the he as part of their name meaning God is part of their existence and they wouldn't have tripped up even earlier on like in Egypt the Egyptian women were known to be extremely lentious and provocative as we know the story of Yseph and Potifar's wife but the the Egyptian women were known to be extremely promiscuous and yet the Jewish people were very uh guarded in their um in their marriages. [Music] So just like the males chose, right? They they chased sexuality after sexually after these women of a foreign god. So too the Egyptian women were also chasing them to uh to be involved. So there's this idea and I'll look at Rashi in a second that there was a concern perhaps our own mothers weren't so guarded when they were in Egypt. Well, guess what? They were. That's why you can see as this prosecute is about to bring down it says by their names right you have the he and the yud attached to everyone's name that's name of God that God himself signs like a signature upon them the name of God the name Good and hay acts as a intermediary for peace between man and wife. You have in the name man shin ish you have a y and in the woman's name isha olive shin hey you have the hey. So you have the olive in the man's name the he in the woman's name and I say woman's name don't is man isha is woman. you you have the yud and the he the only way to really create pure shalom, real peace and bliss in a marriage is to have God in the marriage is to have the yud and the he and if you don't have that yhe, you remove God from the marriage, you're left with the two letters just olive and shin, which is a fire. All you have is fire and negative energy of of destruction. And that's why God put his name into all these his own name Yudhe into all the names in our in our in our chapter dealing with the census to show that they did not they were not promiscuous even way back then with the Egyptians to teach us that all of them were born from both a man and a woman who had God in their life and that's why especially Ben is very special. Okay. So now he's going to discuss why does the H come before the Y. God's name is Yud and Hayashim. The actual H first it comes to testify to inform us how righteous and pure and kosher the women were. Isa when we deal with he and yud of God's name he represents the female and the yud is the ish remember even in the name isha you have the he and the ish there's deeper reasons that we're not going to go into them now very tabistic the truth is he says is that the women were much more guarded and careful ful from sexual um impropriy than the men were. I mean the from it's quite a popular known well-known verse. If you look in Vayikra that's Leviticus 24 verse 11. I actually brought one with me. I can just really go real quick what happened. [Music] Um, what happened was this. I'll read back a little bit. The son of an Israelite woman went out and he was the son of an Egyptian man among the children of Israel. So, we just got done saying that none of the Jewish women were promiscuous. And yet there was a a child who was the son of a Jewish woman and he was the son of an Egyptian man. That means there was some kind of relationship going on among the children of Israel. They contended in the camp. The son of the Israelite woman and the Israelite man. The son of the Israelite woman pronounced the name the god's name and blasphemed. So they brought him to Moses. The name of his mother was Shamit the daughter of Dri. Now, that is the P. That's what we're talking about here. It said, so we're going to see Rash in a second. Um, so she was from the tribe of Dan and they placed him under guard to clarify for them through Hashem what would be the punishment for a blasphemer. So, we look in Rashi, he says, Vashaino Sholomit Bri. The name of his mother was Sholomit, the daughter of Dri. Her name is stated to teach what? The praise of Israel. Scripture publicized this one to say that she alone acted improperly. Okay. And they actually explained it was more like a rape. She didn't really know that uh that it was not her husband she was with. And um so it only happened once and it was an accident. Okay. So this was a praise for Israel. What happens and I'll discuss a little bit that because of the name she spoke a lot. She she got the attention of of of men and I'm not I'm not going to say she got was coming to her because you never blame the victim but she was a little bit free with her speech. I'm going to read what the comment here says in Bikra Raba Shamit Dri was not a prostitute by occupation nor did she have relations with the Egyptian intentionally as Rashi had stated in his comments in Exodus 2:1. She's referred to as prostitute because the Egyptian who had relations with her desired her due to her immodest behavior which Rashi describes in his following comment. Rashi interprets the name Shulamit, the daughter of Dri as indicating the flaw in her behavior that led to her unwitting sin. Sholomit is related to the word sha that means peace. Dri is related to the words to the word words, right? As her name suggests, she was guilty of speaking with too many men and being too free with her greetings. So it says in cassub 72a with the Mishna condemns such behavior. And then in Hosea, if you look in Hosea, it's rashi in Hosea 1:3 where he interprets the name of an immoral woman in a similar manner. So we never blame the victim for her rape, but there could have been some uh some act on her part that aroused a little bit more attention that was necessary. And because of that, this man was attracted to her. But here we're saying that the main point is that she alone was like this and there was nobody else like that and that was a great praise for Israel. But if you look earlier on in numbers 11 verse 1, it talks about that the men were crying for their families. So it's numbers 11 10. Moses heard the people weeping by their families, each one at the entrance to his tent. And that was because there were relations that only became forbidden after the giving of the Torah. And the men had to divorce their wives. So they they were very upset. So we can see that the men are more attracted to illicit relations than women because it was certain forbidden relationships that became forbidden for them and that's why the men were crying and there was a great um stumbling block for them when they arrived at this place called shud to the yud. In other words, again, God's name is Yudhe. But in this case, all the names have the he first and then the because the prime point here the is coming to inform us how righteous the women were that they that our women our mothers were not violated. Furthermore, that this signature we mentioned that all the the letters are are opposite meaning the yud usually comes first in the name yud and k but in our in in the Torah it the the hey comes [Music] first okay watch is there's a PK in song of song sharing chapter 8 verse 6 for for the sake of my love place me like a seal on your heart so it's an order that it comes in this order for a reason for the signature and Israel itself is the signature right for the sake of my love this is God talking place me like a seal on your Just like I This is God. Ah, you know what? I think we read it the other way around. This is our love for God. Just like we love God and we place him on our heart, so too God places us on his heart. So too then will be engraved through me the name of God. So God engraves his name, the yud and the he on us and we that's King Solomon says in sharim however that's very analogous to something for the sake of my love place me like a seal on your heart. So now the last [Music] paragraph even though the 12watim are counted and all the individual families and members are all have the yud out of the 12watim only three have the yud. And why would that be? And that would be ruini hashimi and zuloni. And why does he say this? Well look at the words. So too was Shimon and Zulu. They actually needed an additional help from Hashem. They needed two witnesses more than all the others. When I say two witnesses, the UN the others were more trustworthy. These three had a past or a future. Ruain niksh masabil ru was already fell and stumbled in the in this happening with bilist his um his mother's handmaidaden he switched the beds of course he didn't sleep with his mother's his father's wife even though the verse seems to imply that but he was nitro he felt there was a mistake that he made by switching the beds so that his own mother could sleep with his father so that was a downfall for ruain so he wasn't he wasn't totally trusted when it came to sexual impority. Shimi met Zimri and because Zimray was one of the leaders of this revolt, this sexual revolt. So Shimon also had you know some suspicions that it certainly seems from everything we spoke about that when we have 24,000 that died most of them were from the tribe of Shimon because Shimon led it was the prince of Shimon that was involved in this um this act. And even when you when you just look at the numbers for Shimon, you can see that there's a significant amount missing. What about this the tribe of Zulen? Why would they need an extra aid and extra help? Because it says in in Genesis 49:13 that will settle by the seashore and kazal saying in 61b there's laws about how often a man is supposed to be with his wife and it all depends on what his job is. So you know if he was a Torah scholar or if he was an accountant or if he was a donkey driver or a camel driver or a sailor. So and etc etc. So the Gmorra over there says the amount of time for a sailor that he has to be with his wife is once every six months. So what's they're worried about? I'll tell you what they're worried about after the fact that they go out to sea and they're in their boats and they're separated from their wives for extended period of time. that perhaps the wife will get lonely and might come to fall prey to another man. That's why the name Yud came out. That's why the Yudhe was added to all three Ru Shimon and Zulim to say to us, Zer, Hashem, they all are from the blessed seed of God. They're all from the seed that is blessed by Godar. And they all guarded themselves from sexual party in the past and even from the future. Mikma, more than any other nation or language, uh different people around the world, these three tribes are especially uh modest when it comes to um relations with people outside of marriage.